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<td valign="top" rowspan="2"></td><td height="28" valign="middle" align="left" width="906"><span class="sans"><strong>Contributor:  </strong>Christopher Hanes</span></td><td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="29"></td>
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<span class="sans"><strong>Table Cc66-83&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;
	Wholesale and producer price indexes, by commodity group: 1890&ndash;1997 [Bureau of Labor Statistics]
	
	
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<div align="left">For 1890&ndash;1926: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), <i>Handbook of Labor Statistics</i>, Bulletin number 1,016 (1950), p. 118.  For 1926&ndash;1977: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, <i>Handbook of Labor Statistics</i>, Bulletin number 2,000 (1978), p. 437.  For 1977&ndash;1997: BLS Internet site.  For updates, see the BLS's Internet site.</div>
	
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<div align="left">The index numbers are annual averages of monthly figures, with 1982 = 100.</div>
		
<div style="text-indent:20px;text-align:left">The current BLS producer price indexes by commodity group were begun in 1952 but calculated back to 1947.  A series was spliced to an old wholesale price index series (in Table Cc84&ndash;95) by linking as of January 1947, if the value aggregate of commodities in the old series represented 50 percent or more of the value of shipments in 1947 for all commodities (priced and unpriced) in the new series.  The new series Cc67 for industrial commodities was spliced to the old series for all commodities other than farm products and foods, included in this volume as series Cc85.</div>
		
<div style="text-indent:20px;text-align:left">For a more complete description of techniques used in compiling the index, see BLS Bulletin number 1,458, <i>Handbook of Methods for Surveys and Studies</i> (1966), Chapter 11, and BLS Bulletin number 2,414, <i>BLS Handbook of Methods</i> (1992), Chapter 16.</div>
	
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<div class="sans" align="left">Hanes, Christopher , &ldquo;
	Wholesale and producer price indexes, by commodity group: 1890&ndash;1997 [Bureau of Labor Statistics]
	
	
	.&rdquo;&nbsp;Table Cc66-83 in <i>Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present: Millennial Edition,</i> edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Cc66-20410.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Cc66-204</div>
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